Woman Pulls Out Her Twin Babies By Herself During Caesarian Section

An Australian woman has delivered her own babies by caesarean section. Gerri Wolfe, who is 41, reached inside her abdomen and lifted out her twin children by herself. The procedure happened at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales. Ms Wolfe, who lives on Australia’s Central Coast, named the children Matilda and Violet “My other caesareans were very sterile, very surgical, very impersonal,” she told the Daily Mail newspaper after the operation. “People were talking about what they did on the weekend without even thinking about me laying on the table, going through this momentous experience of having a baby.” The procedure is known in medical circles as a “maternal assisted caesarean”. Doctors made the incision in the woman’s belly as in a normal caesarean, but she reached in with her own hands and scooped the children out by herself. Despite objections from her doctors and bemusement from her partner she went ahead with the procedure.

“It’s my body, it’s my birth, it’s my baby”, she told the newspaper. Mrs Wolfe said it was a wonderfully personal moment – just as if she had a natural birth. ‘This was much more personal,’ she said. Matilda was born at 3.04kg, while Violet was 2.54kg. Gerri stayed in hospital a week afterwards to recover. They are now the youngest of a ‘noisy and chaotic’ batch of siblings – the eldest, Mitchell, is 19 – who are far from spoilt and ‘very involved in the community’, she said. As for the two latest additions to the Umina Beach family, they are both happy and healthy. They will be the Wolfe couple’s last children.